From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Book Review: Little Earthquakes

June 27, 2009

I’m not really a chick-lit fan, but when this book came up on offer in our read­ing group, some­thing about it clicked with me and I decided to give it a try.  Lit­tle Earth­quakes by Jen­nifer Weiner is about four new moms adjust­ing to life with new­borns. I loved that the moms were ded­i­cated to […]

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Helping my little one off the nappies...

June 15, 2009

I have been think­ing long and hard about post­ing about this very del­i­cate sub­ject. It works dif­fer­ent for every­one. It took us now just over two months to get to the point where I can say with rea­son­able con­fi­dence that we have made it! Our daugh­ter not only wear no nap­pies dur­ing the day, but she […]

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Book Review - Maybe One

June 3, 2009

Being an only child requires patience. There’s a lot of explain­ing about not hav­ing sib­lings, and about whether that was “strange” and about how Dis­ney­land might have been more fun with a sib­ling but if I’d had a sib­ling my par­ents couldn’t have afforded to take me to Dis­ney­land. It requires lis­ten­ing to peo­ple talk […]

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